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...male traveling salesman, crammed into an elevator with delegates: "What are all you girls doing in town? Shopping...
...into a beautiful young woman who enjoyed playing one boy off against another. In 1948 Anne, 19, eloped with Alfred ("Kayo") Sexton, a 20-year-old college student ("Dearest Momie and Daddie-I don't know how to begin this letter"). By 1957 Kayo was a traveling wool salesman and Anne had two young daughters and a bad case of the housewife blues...
Tabor Hill was founded in 1968 in Buchanan, Mich., by Leonard Olson, then a 26-year-old steel salesman. "When we started with our vinifera, the local farmers said we were full of prunes, that it wouldn't work." Yet a 1971 Tabor Hill Vidal blanc was served in the White House by Michigander Gerald R. Ford. Though Olson and his partners are still struggling financially, they have visions of a mini-Napa Valley on the shores of Lake Michigan...
...make a fast buck on the public's energy anxieties. Some wholesalers have hiked prices 20%, even though fiber glass manufacturers have not raised most quotes since last March. Arthur Milot, president of a Rhode Island lumber firm, says he was offered insulation in September by a salesman from National Gypsum, a distributor for Owens-Corning, for 20% above the prevailing price. He refused to buy, yet the incident convinced him that whatever profiteering is going on is occurring at "the middleman's level...
Last week New York authorities charged that critical phases of Mirando's hip implant were done not by his surgeons but by a medical-equipment salesman who had no more than an eighth-grade education. Calling it "the most scandalous case it has ever been my duty to prosecute," the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney has already obtained indictments against the two doctors, as well as the anesthesiologist, supervisory nurse and hospital, charging them with second-degree assault and the attempted cover-up of a crime. The four individuals have pleaded not guilty. But state investigators say that...